Subversion documentation for the FreeBSD project?

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2008-06-03 18:45, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> seems like I totally missed the effort to port the FreeBSD CVS to SVN.
> Is there some documentation around, that describes the New Way for us
> mere mortals? Specific questions that come to my mind:

I also saw the src commit messages containing subversion revision
references, and wondered about it.  There's some info here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/VersionControl


> - How will repository propagation be done in the future? rsync?

Apparently there's something called svnsync.


> - Is there one big svn tree or src/ ports/ doc/ seperately?

<http://wiki.freebsd.org/SVN_Repo_Layout>, although this has "proposed"
in the title. :)


> - Did you fixup the CVS repo-copies into real SVN renames?
> - Will svn(1) ever be part of the base system?

It's an Apache/BSD style license, so it looks quite possible.


> - Some statistics about repo-size would be nice :)

No idea about this... Since the Perforce and CVS repositories can be
combined into Subversion, you'd also save some space.